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The next time you're looking to stir things up, ask food-savvy friends what happens when they are directed to "season with salt to taste."
Seemingly noncontroversial, the topic is as loaded as a baked potato at a steakhouse chain. Everybody's got an opinion. Recipe writers see the phrase as a nod to individual preference, while that very lack of specificity is viewed by others as a scourge on modern, everyday cookery.
One thing it isn't, scourge or no, is a recent development. In the mid-18th century, English cooks making gravy were told to "season it to your Taste with Salt" by Hannah Glasse's "The Art of Cooking, Made Plain and Easy." Go back in the time machine, via Larousse Gastronomique, and you'll learn that the Greek poet Homer described nations as poor "when they did not mix salt with their food."
One thing culinary professionals can agree on is that home cooks of this era don't have the touch for efficient salting. Chalk it up to the salt bombs inherent in so much processed food or to health studies that have scared the salt cellars off our dinner tables, but we all need help – especially those who must monitor their intake. If salt is to be limited, better learn the best ways to maximize its impact. But don't go without it.
Why? Shake any serious treatise or article on salt, and something along these lines will fall out: Humans need the stuff to live. It's a fundamental taste sensation. In "What Einstein Told His Cook," chemistry professor Robert L. Wolke calls sodium chloride – salt, at his house – our most precious food, the only natural rock intentionally consumed by our species. And it has "the magic ability," he writes, "to enhance other flavors."
Salt entrepreneur Mark Bitterman crystallized a takeaway message in 2011 when he wrote in the Guardian that "the simple act of salting food is so ancient, varied and essential that we have been lulled into believing we know how to do it, but most often, we don't."
Case in point: the handsome 2009 cookbook "Salt to Taste." A good place to get granular, you might think. Author-chef Marco Canora of Hearth restaurant in New York invokes the title phrase even in basic pasta recipes. He encourages cooks to follow their senses. But we're not going to be sampling raw dough. Give us a starting point, as exasperated food-writing coach Dianne Jacob says.
Many cookbook authors do just that, in their introductory chapters, by explaining what their "pinch" of salt entails or describing how to establish a salt baseline. (For ways to salt efficiently at home, see the accompanying sidebar.) The problem is that such reading material is seldom reviewed every subsequent time the page is turned to a new recipe.
Some practitioners who used to sling "salt to taste" have seen the light.
"I didn't use to specify amounts or types of salt in my savory recipes," says beloved cookbook author and master baker Dorie Greenspan. "I always did for my sweets. But my thinking has changed, in part because I find many cooks are too timid with salt. The old pinch of salt is always too little and often the 'to taste' is as well."
The actual taste of salt is not what's in play here, nor is catering to the hand that showers salt crystals on french fries. It's getting back to a place where we come to realize how much salt – or how little – it takes to elevate the foods we cook at home. Proper seasoning with salt takes practice; the addition of a few grains while ingredient flavors blend in a pot can make a huge difference.
"Salt to taste" is what you might say when you're trying to dodge the issue, according to Sara Moulton, host of public television's "Sara's Weeknight Meals." She has been teaching people how to cook since the 1980s and says questions about salt come up in every class and in every cooking demonstration. The Gourmet magazine alum is upfront enough to admit that some salting advice she has dispensed should be taken with a grain of, well, regret.
"I told people during my live show that kosher salt has no additives," Moulton says. "That's not always the case. I said boiled rice and pasta and potatoes could correct oversalted soup.… Then I experimented with chicken broth and found out how wrong that was." (Diluting with water is her preferred method now.)
Because her focus is on how home cooks can get the most flavor out of the food they make, Moulton emphasizes seasoning as you go and tasting often, common practices among culinary professionals. "Vegetables or meat, I don't season differently," she says. She goes for a light sprinkling, not always for every ingredient added to the pot.
"It is something that people at home are afraid of," says Serious Eats managing editor J. Kenji Lopez-Alt. "You can add salt but not take it away. But the flavor you get from the salt shaker at the table is not the same as the flavor you get from salting as you cook."
Lopez-Alt, who will publish in the fall a two-volume, technique-based guide aimed at home cooks, marvels at salt for what it does to food physically, such as breaking down muscle proteins in meats and charcuterie, and for the way it helps food taste more like whatever that food is. When he hears talk of substituting, say, lemon juice, for the sake of reducing the quantity of salt in a recipe, he's not convinced.
"Acid doesn't behave the same way," Lopez-Alt says. "Increasing one variable doesn't compensate for not having enough of the other."
Still, between accounting for the hidden, naturally occurring salt we consume in foods daily – in business lunches downtown, say, and the occasional nacho chip binge – getting stingy with added sodium in your home kitchen has become a default of its own. "I've trained myself not to add salt," and "I'm not using as much salt as I used to" are familiar cooking-class comments that make instructors secretly wince. Once we really learn how to season with salt, our efforts in the kitchen will be all the better for it.
"People should reduce their salt a little," says Paul Breslin, a Rutgers University professor of nutritional sciences often consulted as a guru of taste (receptors, not trends). "But when they use salt at home, it's possible they will punish themselves by withholding salt from their diets. Not necessary." The amount of salt from a shaker is trivial compared with what can be ingested from processed/prepared foods, he says.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention agree, citing that more than 40 percent of Americans' sodium intake comes from a mere 10 foods we buy or order at restaurants: bread; cold cuts/cured meats; pizza; fresh and processed poultry; soups; sandwiches; cheese; pasta dishes; meat-mixed dishes such as meatloaf with tomato sauce; and the snack trinity of pretzels, chips and popcorn.
Breslin is in the salt-food-at-the-end camp, interestingly. Studies show that people tend to use less salt when they apply it at the table, he says. The much-ballyhooed trick of tenderizing a steak – basically a reverse osmosis that involves salting meat, then aging it in cold storage so the moisture is pulled out and then reabsorbed with salty goodness – can be achieved without any salt at all. Remember that the proteins in a piece of unwrapped piece of meat in the refrigerator can be broken down simply by dry aging, he says.
Still, humans just plain crave salt, don't they? There is no clear evidence of that, Breslin says – at least they don't crave it as fervently as salt-lick-seeking animals do. The slightly addictive properties of the late Judy Rodgers' Zuni Cafe cuisine could qualify as Exhibit A that we hunger for the proper use of salt, at least. The San Francisco chef was an early adopter of pre-salting meaty proteins as well as vegetables – to glorious effect. Thousands of chickens were roasted a la Rodgers, salted a day in advance, in honor of her passing in December.
Which raises the issue of salting that goes on in restaurants. Thanks to open kitchens and endless cutthroat competitions on TV, we can watch chefs regularly toss in enough salt to handle an icy stoop. More is more! Salt equals flavor!
Some attribute the heavy hand to chefs' palate fatigue. West Coast cooking teacher Linda Carucci has an additional theory, which came to her on a second visit to a restaurant where she had enjoyed a good-tasting meal. On this occasion, however, just about everything she tasted was too salty. As she was leaving, she saw chefs on a cigarette break in the alley.
"I thought, 'Smoking dulls the palate. How many chefs do I know who smoke?' "
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Stopping the worst people on earth
Baghdad called President Obama's bluff and he came through. He had refused to provide air support to Iraqi government forces until the Iraqis got rid of their divisive sectarian prime minister.
They did. He responded.
With the support of U.S. airstrikes, Iraqi and Kurdish forces have retaken the Mosul dam. Previous strikes had relieved the siege of Mount Sinjar and helped the Kurds retake two strategic towns that had opened the road to a possible Islamic State assault on Irbil, the capital of Kurdistan.
In following through, Obama demonstrated three things: the effectiveness of even limited U.S. power, the vulnerability of the Islamic State and, crucially, his own seriousness, however tentative.
The last of these is the most important. Obama had said that there is no American military solution to the conflict. This may be true, but there is a local military solution. And that solution requires U.S. air support.
It can work. The Islamic State is overstretched. It's a thin force of perhaps 15,000 trying to control a territory four times the size of Israel. Its supply lines are not just extended but exposed and highly vulnerable to air power.
Stopping the Islamic State's momentum creates a major shift in psychology. Guerrilla armies thrive on a sense of inevitability. The Islamic State has grown in size, demoralized its enemies and attracted recruits from all over the world because it seemed unstoppable, a real caliphate in the making.
People follow the strong horse over the weak horse, taught Osama bin Laden. These jihadis came out of nowhere and shocked the world by capturing Mosul, Tikrit and the approaches to Kurdistan, heretofore assumed to be impregnable.
Now that's begun to be reversed.
Obama was slow to bring American power to bear. And slower still to arm the Kurds. But he was right to wait until Baghdad had gotten rid of Nouri al-Maliki, lest the U.S. serve as a Shiite air force. We don't know how successful Haider al-Abadi will be in forming a more national government. But Obama has for now wisely taken advantage of the Abadi opening.
The problem is that the new policy has outgrown the rationale. Our reason for returning to Iraq, explained Obama, is twofold: preventing genocide and protecting U.S. personnel.
According to Obama's own assertions, however, the recent Kurdish/Iraqi advances have averted the threat of genocide. As for the threat to U.S. personnel at the consulate in Irbil, it too is reduced.
It was a flimsy rationale to begin with. To protect Americans in an outpost, you don't need an air war. A simple evacuation would do.
Besides, what does the recapture of the Mosul dam, the most significant gain thus far, have to do with either rationale? There are no Christians or Yazidis sheltering there. Nor any American diplomats. So Obama tried this: If the dam is breached, the wall of water could swamp our embassy in Baghdad.
Quite a reach. An air war to prevent flooding at an embassy 200 miles downstream? Well yes, but why not say the real reason? Everyone knows it: The dam is a priceless strategic asset, possession of which alters the balance of power in this war.
And why not state the real objective of the U.S. air campaign? Stopping, containing, degrading the Islamic State.
For now, Obama can get away with stretching the existing rationale, but not if he is to conduct a sustained campaign. For this you must make the larger case that we simply cannot abide a growing jihadist state in the heart of the Middle East, fueled by oil, advanced weaponry and a deranged fanaticism.
These are the worst people on earth. They openly, proudly crucify enemies, enslave women and murder men en masse. These are not the usual bad guys out for land, plunder or power. These are primitive cultists who celebrate slaughter, glory in bloodlust and slit the throats of innocents as a kind of sacrament.
We have now seen what air cover for Kurdish/Iraqi boots on the ground can achieve. But for a serious rollback campaign, Obama will need public support. He has to explain the stakes and the larger strategy. His weak and passive rhetorical reaction to the beheading of American journalist James Foley was a discouragingly missed opportunity.
"People like this ultimately fail," Obama said of Foley's murderers. Perhaps. But "ultimately" can be a long way — and thousands of dead — away. The role of a great power, as Churchill and Roosevelt understood, is to bring that day closer.
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Some of the brightest objects in the Universe are supermassive black holes at the hearts of galaxies—black holes with masses millions or billions of times greater than the Sun. As matter falls toward these black holes, the system emits intense radiation, especially in the radio and X-ray portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. When light from the infalling matter reaches a maximum intensity, the systems are known as quasars, which are bright enough to shine out from the early Universe.
Stellar-mass black holes, which are "only" 5 to 20 times more massive than the Sun, can also produce intense light. However, interstellar gas absorbs and scatters the X-rays, making them difficult to spot. As a result, only four microquasars are known in the Milky Way, and we haven't been able to observe many details of them. No similar systems have been spotted in other galaxies—until now. Observers found the first microquasar in M31 (Andromeda Galaxy), the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way.
Though black holes (either stellar-mass or supermassive) emit no light of their own, their intense gravity gathers matter around them. As charged particles such as electrons accelerate, they emit light; with the high acceleration rates around black holes, this light takes the form of X-rays and radio waves. (Even though X-rays are some of the highest energy radiation and radio waves are the lowest in energy, they are often produced by the same physical phenomena, and provide dual ways to observe some of the most violent events in the cosmos.)
The matter forms a rotating accretion disk around the black hole, and some is channeled into powerful jets streaming along the axis of rotation. The infalling particles in the disk interact with each other, so that pressure builds up within it. Eventually, it can build to the point where it pushes any additional matter away from the black hole. As a result, a black hole (or any other object) will reach a maximum brightness, known as the Eddington luminosity, named for the astronomer Arthur Eddington. Quasars are supermassive black holes shining at or near the Eddington luminosity, and microquasars are likely stellar-mass black holes whose accretion is similarly close to the theoretical maximum.
The orbiting XMM-Newton X-ray observatory discovered XMMU J004243.6+412519, a bright X-ray source in M31 in January 2012. Later, the object flared to a peak luminosity greater than 1032 Watts. For reference, the Sun's luminosity is 3.8×1026 Watts, including all types of light. In other words, this object emits roughly a million times the energy of our Sun in X-rays alone. If that wasn't enough, this particular microquasar was 10 times brighter than any other known object in M31.
Astronomers monitored the ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) using the Swift and Chandra orbiting observatories for X-rays, along with the Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico, the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), and the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager Large Array (AMI-LA) for radio light. These observations allowed the researchers to rule out the possibility that the microquasar was actually a more distant background object peeking through M31's disk. They also were able to determine that the emission from the ULX varied on a rapid timescale (varying measurably over tens of minutes for X-ray, and over a few days for radio). This variation is a hallmark of accretion, since matter doesn't fall inwards in a steady stream.
Unlike microquasars in the Milky Way, those in other galaxies potentially provide an unimpeded view of the black hole accretion process. This will allow astronomers to test whether microquasars are miniature versions of their supermassive cousins, and measure the accretion mechanism in unprecedented detail. Since the nearest "regular" quasars are much farther away than M31, a nearby microquasar provides a beautiful target for observations of how black holes beam infalling matter into jets, and the specific processes are by which they make their intense light.
The authors of the present study even postulated that, thanks what they've learned through this discovery, they will be able to locate other microquasars using radio emissions. If true, this would be more efficient and faster than X-ray based searches, not to mention higher resolution: the VLA and VLBA both provide pinpoint locations for bright sources. This M31 microquasar could be the first of many discovered in other galaxies, providing understanding of how many there are, and how they may influence their environment.
Nature, 2012. DOI: 10.1038/nature11697 (About DOIs).


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Forecasters: Sandy's center slams into NJ coast
NEW YORK — Superstorm Sandy slammed into the New Jersey coastline with 80 mph winds Monday night and hurled an unprecedented 13-foot surge of seawater at New York City, flooding its tunnels, subway stations and the electrical system that powers Wall Street. At least 13 U.S. deaths were blamed on the storm, which brought the presidential campaign to a halt a week before Election Day.
For New York City at least, Sandy was not the dayslong onslaught many had feared, and the wind and rain that sent water sloshing into Manhattan from three sides began dying down within hours.
Still, the power was out for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers and an estimated 5.7 million people altogether across the East. And the full extent of the storm's damage across the region was unclear, and unlikely to be known until daybreak.
In addition, heavy rain and further flooding remain major threats over the next couple of days as the storm makes its way into Pennsylvania and up into New York State. Near midnight, the center of the storm was just outside Philadelphia, and its winds were down to 75 mph, just barely hurricane strength.
"It was nerve-racking for a while, before the storm hit. Everything was rattling," said Don Schweikert, who owns a bed-and-breakfast in Cape May, N.J., near where Sandy roared ashore. "I don't see anything wrong, but I won't see everything until morning."
As the storm closed in, it converged with a cold-weather system that turned it into a superstorm, a monstrous hybrid consisting not only of rain and high wind but snow in West Virginia and other mountainous areas inland.
It smacked the boarded-up big cities of the Northeast corridor — Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston — with stinging rain and gusts of more than 85 mph.
Just before Sandy reached land, forecasters stripped it of hurricane status, but the distinction was purely technical, based on its shape and internal temperature. It still packed hurricane-force wind, and forecasters were careful to say it was still dangerous to the tens of millions in its path.
Sandy made landfall at 8 p.m. near Atlantic City, which was already mostly under water and saw an old, 50-foot piece of its world-famous Boardwalk washed away earlier in the day.
Authorities reported a record surge 13 feet high at the Battery at the southern tip of Manhattan, from the storm and high tide combined.
In an attempt to lessen damage from saltwater to the subway system and the electrical network beneath the city's financial district, New York City's main utility cut power to about 6,500 customers in lower Manhattan. But a far wider swath of the city was hit with blackouts caused by flooding and transformer explosions.
The city's transit agency said water surged into two major commuter tunnels, the Queens Midtown and the Brooklyn-Battery, and it cut power to some subway tunnels in lower Manhattan after water flowed into the stations and onto the tracks.
The subway system was shut down Sunday night, and the stock markets never opened Monday and are likely to be closed Tuesday as well.
The surge hit New York City hours after a construction crane atop a luxury high-rise collapsed in the wind and dangled precariously 74 floors above the street. Forecasters said the wind at the top the building may have been close to 95 mph.
As the storm drew near, airlines canceled more than 12,000 flights, disrupting the plans of travelers all over the world.
Storm damage was projected at $10 billion to $20 billion, meaning it could prove to be one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history.
Thirteen deaths were reported in New Jersey, New York, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Some of the victims were killed by falling trees. At least one death was blamed on the storm in Canada.
President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney canceled their campaign appearances at the very height of the race, with just over a week to go before Election Day. The president pledged the government's help and made a direct plea from the White House to those in the storm's path.
"When they tell you to evacuate, you need to evacuate," he said. "Don't delay, don't pause, don't question the instructions that are being given, because this is a powerful storm."
Sandy, which killed 69 people in the Caribbean before making its way up the Atlantic, began to hook left at midday toward the New Jersey coast.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said people were stranded in Atlantic City, which sits on a barrier island. He accused the mayor of allowing them to stay there. With the hurricane roaring through, Christie warned it was no longer safe for rescuers, and advised people who didn't evacuate the coast to "hunker down" until morning.
"I hope, I pray, that there won't be any loss of life because of it," he said.
While the hurricane's 90 mph winds registered as only a Category 1 on a scale of five, it packed "astoundingly low" barometric pressure, giving it terrific energy to push water inland, said Kerry Emanuel, a professor of meteorology at MIT.
And the New York metropolitan area apparently got the worst of it, because it was on the dangerous northeastern wall of the storm.
"We are looking at the highest storm surges ever recorded" in the Northeast, said Jeff Masters, meteorology director for Weather Underground, a private forecasting service. "The energy of the storm surge is off the charts, basically."
Hours before landfall, there was graphic evidence of the storm's power.
Off North Carolina, a replica of the 18th-century sailing ship HMS Bounty that was built for the 1962 Marlon Brando movie "Mutiny on the Bounty" went down in the storm, and 14 crew members were rescued by helicopter from rubber lifeboats bobbing in 18-foot seas. Another crew member was found hours later but was unresponsive. The captain was missing.
At Cape May, water sloshed over the seawall, and it punched through dunes in other seaside communities.
"When I think about how much water is already in the streets, and how much more is going to come with high tide tonight, this is going to be devastating," said Bob McDevitt, president of the main Atlantic City casino workers union. "I think this is going to be a really bad situation tonight."
In Maryland, at least 100 feet of a fishing pier at the beach resort of Ocean City was destroyed.
At least half a million people along the East Coast had been ordered to evacuate, including 375,000 from low-lying parts of New York City.
Sheila Gladden left her home in Philadelphia's flood-prone Eastwick neighborhood, which took on 5½ feet of water during Hurricane Floyd in 1999, and headed for a hotel.
"I'm not going through this again," she said.
Those who stayed behind had few ways to get out.
Not only was the New York subway shut down, but the Holland Tunnel connecting New York to New Jersey was closed, as was a tunnel between Brooklyn and Manhattan. The Brooklyn Bridge, the George Washington Bridge, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and several other spans were closed because of high winds.


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She gave me some information on it
There was a few other places that I was looking at, but I was felt lead to come here, and, uh, actually the doctors wouldn't even allow me out of the hospital to come here
They said I would never make it, and so, uh, my brother who insisted upon getting me out there
So I came out
Took a, a van
Took it
Came out here, and, uh, I couldn't walk
Couldn't hold a pencil in my hand
I could hardly sit up in a chair (laugh), much less anything else
And, uh, within, with just within a few weeks of, of some treatment I could actually get up and walk and so forth
Then as time went, I was able to walk a little more, and then I was able to drive, and now I'm being able to read and write and the whole thing, so, and as of today I just got my final report, and that final report, (?) the last report that I've actually, looked like there's no active cancer at all
There's some tumors left and some little shades here
Scar tissue
So, I'm continuing on, on the treatment, but so far, I thank God, and I'm still here, and, uh, gave me some extra time here
So I'm thankful
So when were you first diagnosed with ?
I was diagnosed with, uh, lymphoma
Uh, we were going in for heart repla, my 6th hernia operation (laugh) and the found it in my abdomen, and so they immediately took me to the, get a port and get me on the chemo and so forth, and, uh, the 1st chemo treatment I, I almost didn't, I almost didn't survive
I was rushed to the hospital
They, they didn't expect me to make it the night
However, I did make it, and a couple times there were a couple problems there
Then I went through radiation and some, uh, some other treatment for about 2 or 3 years here
Some remission, uh
And what was your health like during that time ?
Uh, it was, my immune system was quite down
I was catching colds
I was getting pneumonia and things
Uh, not pneumonia but almost on the edge of it but always weak, and, uh, coming here, you know, it, it's a lot different
It, its reach a little more compassionately
There's a little bit more, uh, with not as much side effects and hardly as much side effects as, as, as the other treatments
Still been able to drive, fly, and everything else and, and, uh, so, uh, with the, I, I just find with the multi-approach that they have here, uh, you know, all the different ways they attack it, not just one or two different ways that should become standard, that doctors actually looked outside the box, and discovered things that, uh, uh, are, are just fantastic, and that's one of the things
I like to do a lot of research, and I just found, what I found here just clicked, and thank God I'm here today
So (laughing)
So the 1st time you had, when you were diagnosed
2000 you had chemotherapy
Radiation treatment, and I had some Zebulon radiation treatment and so forth
And then, how long were you kinda, well you can't (?)
Well (?), 2007 and then, uh, they wanted to do a bone marrow transplant, and they had to give me more dose of chemo which would have been stronger than the 1st, and I almost didn't make it the 1st time
So I just
You said "No"
I said I just, I just won't
I can't do that
And what did your oncologist say ?
Uh, well, he didn't have much of a choice
I didn't really wanna take that route
He says "Well, there's no other choice," basically
There's nothing more we can do for you
Well, no
That's, that's, that's
(?) go home and die
Well, no
That was their
That was their next line of treatment, that, and that was it
Bone marrow transplants, so forth, uh, which, you know, that's within their perimeter, but here he treats it a little but more outside, with the different, different methods that he has, with the DNA and the, and the, uh, uh, treating the vascular part of the cell, uh, and the tumor, to choke off the supply of the nutrients, and so forth
Uh, just the whole multi-faceted approach, which actually, uh, which, which I, when I read it I said "Wow, here's one that's really on top of this thing," and, and I know there's been some, uh, uh, uh, envy sometimes from the (laughing) medical field, and that's just natural of anything
I mean, I've been in real estate for years, and worked, uh, different ways that, you know, when you come up with a different method, a lot of people don't want to change so easy
So I'm pretty familiar with that
Uh, so I just, I just have found that, uh, uh, just the overall way I've been treated here
It's just, it's just really refreshing
So you, you, you came down here when, which, in?
November 2010
You came down (?)
From Miami
From actually Fort Lauderdale
And, um, how soon, you said it was in a couple of weeks you were
Yeah, within, within a few weeks I was actually starting to feel a bit better
I was starting to walk a bit more
I couldn't even walk 10 feet without, you know, being so exhausted
Then I'd walk up to 50 feet
Then I'd walk up to 100 feet
Then I'd, by the time Christmas came around I flew back to Orlando to visit my sister and, uh, I was actually able to walk about 5 or 6 blocks to go to the grocery store and back
Got, got lost somewhere
What was that like ?
You know, the realization that you were alive and you were well again ?
Well, you know, uh, uh, again, uh, I was at the point before, and I have my, I have peace with my maker so I don't know, one way, way I'd have gone if have been happy (?) but I,
You were prepared to go
but I'm prepared to go, but I have a young daughter and, uh, and a lot of family still here
So I didn't wanna, I didn't wanna go just yet (laughing)
So I'm thankful, with the treatment and by the grace of God I'm still here, and so, I look at, uh, uh, uh, you know, where I was at
Uh, I just, uh, realized the direction I was given to come out here, uh, and, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, took advantage of it, and you see what, what took place
So I'm thankful
And, and what, what treatment were you on when you 1st came here ?
I wasn't really on any treatment at the time
I, I, I, I wasn't going to go back and do the bone marrow although it's still an option and some people might wanna use it
I just wanted to do it different, way
And what treatment did they put on, on, put you on when you came here ?
Uh, well they gave me, I did take some infusions to get my health back into shape
I was, uh, uh, a little malnourished here and there, uh, they uh, uh, uh
I'm not really coherent really what was going on back then
Yeah, right
My brother, and sister-in-law, and my sister were all here with me
They were kinda keeping on top of things
I was kinda trying to just keep breathing
So, uh, and what about
I vaguely remember some of the things I went through
I couldn't even get out of bed in some instances, and my folks had to help me here and there
What about now ?
Uh, in, in regarding ?
Your health now
What, what
Well, uh, I, I, I feel, uh, I feel good
I mean, there, there's still, uh
I mean I
I'm, uh
I used to play football years ago
I still have a lot of injuries from that and I'm still (laughing)
I'm walking around with, but other than that I feel pretty good
I mean I, you know, I'm very thankful, I'm
I've been able to go out and do a number of things I hadn't been able to do before
I spend time with my daughter as much as I can, and I'm very grateful for that
It makes a big difference
Yeah, I bet
Um, I just, uh, uh, I'm grateful for, for, you know, the way the doctors treat and the staff here
Uh, the I.V. nurses have just, I mean, uh, have just been phenomenal for me and I'm just, I'm very grateful for what they've done here
The staff
The welcoming committee
Everybody else
They keep on top of what's going on
They know where you're at
So why do you think more people aren't treated the way you're treated as far as cancer's concerned ?
Well I, well I think there's, uh, you know, uh
Anytime there's anything new, there's always a hesitation, uh, which in a way is reasonable, but when you begin to see it documented and coming forth to be true, then you pretty much know it's more established, and so you, uh, are more willing to go in that direction and, uh, I, uh, what I went through before I didn't really want to go through again, uh, with the chemo and the radiation and so forth
Uh, I just, uh, uh, you know, I almost didn't last through it
So I, I was just looking for something different and this, this is where I came
So I'm, I'm thankful for it, uh, and I've mentioned it to a number of people, that have asked me, uh, over the course of the year, and I've, been able to talk to a number of people that have been here
I mean, I've met people from, uh, South Africa, Turkey, uh, Japan, ah, Australia
They'd all come over here for treatment
So, I mean, I've kept in contact with a number of them
So it's really a joy to meet some of the other people treated successfully here
So, uh, yeah, uh, uh, I just,
Maybe, uh, you know, with the, with the set way that the medical field is, resistant in change, plus there's a big, you know there's, uh, big monetary issue about, you know, something comes in, it's a little bit more efficient
You know, I don't want to get into a lot of the motives, but I'm just grateful for what
uh, they've done here for me, so, and it's been successful so far, so I'm thankful
I know how the resistance is, when there's something new that comes along, and what happens, uh, there may be a monetary motive to prevent, uh, you know, the, the, I hate to say that but we're human, and so, you know, if, if, if, somebody comes up with something that's a better way to treat, there's all kinds of things that the person goes through their mind and their heart to what they're thinking about, uh, you know, it's kind of a threatening thing to the industry because they, they're going to lose out on it
if they're not on top of that
So, it becomes a threat in a sense, and it shouldn't be, but that's human nature
A lot of times human nature comes out that way and you see it in anything
You see it in the medical field
You see it in, in the real estate field
You see it in the legal field
You see it in all kinds of things to where it can get into a self-fulfilling type of thing, when something comes along, that's very profitable
It's not necessarily always going to get in the forefront because it's, there's a lot of, uh, blocks and blockades in the way to prevent that from happening
Some, some of it good and some of it bad, and that's just because of human motives, uh, of competition, so forth
Burzynski Patient Interview #1
January 2011


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This is a great piece I wrote with Dave Thomsen, EVP of Product at Wanderful Media. The Wanderful team is focused on connecting local retailers with consumers, and we see a huge opportunity for retailers to capitalize on areas that Amazon and other ecommerce companies are missing – local knowledge and connections, improved offline shopping experiences, and services that link offline and online shopping offerings.
New technologies are opening the door for local brick-and-mortar retailers to connect with customers, bridging online and offline shopping experiences to satisfy customer needs for immediacy, tangibility and casual discovery. The discovery of goods while flipping through an advertising circular in the newspaper or an array of products on a tablet, that results in a trip to the local store, and concludes with cashing in on an in-store promotion using a mobile phone, can create a shopping experience that is unmatched.
Retailers are ramping up efforts to turn the tide against Amazon and bring consumers back into stores, using customer experience and new technology as a weapon of persuasion. Retailers realize that if they can bring consumers into the store they have an opportunity to sell, not only a product, but also an experience. That emotional connection to a brand is where Big Retail and the industry are smartly hedging their bets.
via Forbes: Amazon's Hidden Weak Spot: Lack Of Local Leverage – Forbes.


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Well, it's been quite a year!
2012 saw the publication of our first print edition in France (Paraphilia – which we are lead to believe has FAR outweighed our expectations sales-wise. Come back in January to find out how it did) and marked the two year anniversary of Sugar & Spice.
We now have a total of FIVE full-length novels, (two of which are available in print direct from Amazon), two novellas, two short stories, two anthologies and four novellas written under a couple of other names available on all e-reading platforms.
Phew! And in-between that, we have found a little time to blog, tweet, fb, pinterest, stumble and even collaborate on a couple of e-publishing books written by others. Oh yeah, and sometimes we slept… 😉
"So, what are you gonna give us in 2013, Saffina?"
Ah, well, I thought you'd never ask! 😉
I am sooooooo excited about the projects we are working on for next year.
We will be releasing books three and four of the Rose Red crime thriller series. Beauty & the Beast will be out first quarter of 2013 and Little Red Riding Hood at the end of the year.
And just to make sure that you keep up with Red and the team, there'll be some more Rose Red Rhyme shorts in between!
Speaking of Rose Red Rhymes, you readers have been sooooooo good this year, that we have a little pressie for you. Ring-A-Ring O'Roses is FREE for the next five days!
If you live in the UK, click here.
RotW, here.
(also free on all other Amazon sites world-wide)
Just a little thank you for being so wonderful! 😉
Now, where was I? Oh yes, 2013. What else?
Well, the fabulous St. Mallory's forever ! will be hitting your Kindles (other generic e-reading devices are available) in the New Year, so look out for it!
Aside from that our BIG release and a slight swerve away from our usual stuff, will be the first in our new DARK HALO (urban fantasy) trilogy: First Blood.
First Blood will change the way you think about vampires and angels, forever (and then some)…
There might even be time for a few other surprises along the way. Who knows?
Saffina Desforges, always entertaining. Never what you expect.
So all that remains is for us to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year, we hope to see you all back again in 2013!
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Bruce Willis remains a die-hard at the box office.
Willis' action sequel "A Good Day to Die Hard" debuted as the weekend's top draw with a $25 million debut from Friday to Sunday. The 20th Century Fox release raised its domestic total to $33.2 million since opening Thursday for Valentine's Day to get a jump on the long President's Day weekend.
The movie comes 25 years after the original "Die Hard" and six years after "Live Free or Die Hard," the hit that resurrected the franchise centered on Willis' relentless New York City cop John McClane.
The previous weekend's No. 1 movie, Universal's comedy "Identity Thief" starring Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy, was a close second with $23.4 million to lift its haul to $70.7 million.
Debuting at No. 3 with $21.4 million was Relativity Media's romance "Safe Haven," starring Julianne Hough and Josh Duhamel in an adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel about a woman who flees her abusive husband and takes up with a sensitive widower. Since opening on Valentine's Day, "Safe Haven" has taken in $30.3 million.
The Weinstein Co. animated tale "Escape from Planet Earth" opened at No. 4 with $16.1 million. With a voice cast that includes Brendan Fraser, Jessica Alba, Sarah Jessica Parker and Rob Corddry, the movie follows the adventures of aliens captured by the U.S. military.
Making a weak debut at No. 6 was the Warner Bros. teen fantasy "Beautiful Creatures," which pulled in $7.5 million for the weekend and $10 million since opening Thursday. The movie is based on the first in the best-selling series about a Southern misfit (Alden Ehrenreich) who falls under the spell of a teen witch (Alice Englert).
"A Good Day to Die Hard" did solid business despite bad reviews for the latest installment, which sends Willis' McClane to Moscow in search of his estranged son, an undercover spy who winds up teaming with the old man against Russian bad guys.
The movie's success follows notable flops from two other holdovers of the 1980s action scene, Sylvester Stallone with "Bullet to the Head" and Arnold Schwarzenegger with "The Last Stand."
"There's still life left in the `Die Hard' franchise. Given the fact that pretty much every other R-rated action movie that's come out this year has completely fallen flat, this is a pretty good showing," said Paul Dergarabedian, an analyst for box-office tracker Hollywood.com. Willis is "one of the old-guard action stars who still has a solid career going, whereas a lot of these aging action heroes, unless they're in an ensemble cast, they're not able to draw audiences the way they used to."
Overall Hollywood business remained slow, with revenues off for the fourth-straight weekend compared to the same period last year. Domestic business from Friday to Sunday totaled $141 million, down 9.4 percent from the same weekend a year ago, when "Safe House" and "The Vow" led the way with about $23 million each.
A bright spot this year has been strong business for top Academy Awards contenders leading up to next Sunday's Oscars. The weekend's top-20 films included eight of the nine best-picture nominees, seven of which have either topped $100 million domestically or are close.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers are included. Final domestic figures will be released Tuesday.
1. "A Good Day to Die Hard," $25 million ($61.5 million international).
2. "Identity Thief," $23.4 million ($180,000 international).
3. "Safe Haven," $21.4 million ($2.6 million international).
4. "Escape from Planet Earth," $16.1 million.
5. "Warm Bodies," $9 million ($4.9 million international).
6. "Beautiful Creatures," $7.5 million ($5.4 million international).
7. "Side Effects," $6.3 million.
8. "Silver Linings Playbook," $6.1 million ($6.5 million international).
9. "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters," $3.5 million ($9.5 million international).
10. "Zero Dark Thirty," $3.1 million ($2.9 million international).
Estimated weekend ticket sales at international theaters (excluding the U.S. and Canada) for films distributed overseas by Hollywood studios, according to Rentrak:
1. "A Good Day to Die Hard," $61.5 million.
2. "Django Unchained," $13.7 million.
3. "Wreck-It Ralph," $11.5 million.
4. "Les Miserables," $10 million.
5. "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters," $9.5 million.
6. "Miracle in Cell. No. 7," $8.8 million.
7. "Flight," $7 million.
8. "Lincoln," $6.6 million.
9. "Silver Linings Playbook," $6.5 million.
10. "Jack Reacher," $5.7 million.
Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.
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Today's busy lifestyles leave little time for basic cooking, and have led to a growing trend of daily fast food meals — for breakfast, lunch and dinner! But eating healthy and cooking at home can fit within a busy lifestyle if you learn to make quick, 15-minute meals. Deana Gunn and Wona Miniati, authors of the "Cooking with Trader Joe's" cookbooks, are two moms who found that recipe shortcuts are the key to quick meals — and kicking the fast food habit. "By taking fresh ingredients and strategically coupling them with prepared items and shortcuts from the grocery store, we can create healthy meals in a fraction of the time it would take to make from scratch," says Gunn.
Most markets now offer fresh, ready-to-use ingredients such as jarred sauces, cut veggies, bagged salads and marinated meats — the key to these easy shortcuts. Here are Gunn and Miniati's top 10 kitchen tips and tricks for cooking delicious and easy meals at home, without compromising quality or resorting to the drive-through:
1) Use prepared sauces, from marinaras to curries. Add vegetables or meats and simmer, or toss sauces with couscous or pasta.
2) Add everyday superfoods, like canned beans or pre-cooked lentils, to soups or salads, or serve them over rice.
3) Pick up a fully cooked rotisserie chicken. Use the leftovers in wraps or soups.
4) Perk up any meal with fresh herbs. Add fresh basil to a simple pasta dish, cilantro to plain rice, or rosemary to roasting potatoes.
5) Toss a healthy salad in minutes using washed and bagged salad.
6) Salad dressings do double-duty as fast and flavorful marinades for chicken or meats.
7) Transform boxed meals such as rice pilaf or mac-n-cheese by adding frozen vegetables, ready-cubed pancetta or a little curry powder.
8) Put an end to greasy pizza delivery. Use ready-made dough to roll out quick pizza crusts that you can top with your own favorite and healthy ingredients.
9) Customize cake and bread mixes to your tastes. Add dried fruits and nuts to a bread mix, or stir lemon and orange zest into a plain white cake mix.
10) Plan simple recipes for the week before going shopping. If you shop with meals in mind, you'll save time and wasted groceries. Sent from my iPad


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The BBC has reported that Israeli air force jets have bombed the Islamic University in the Gaza Strip, a significant cultural symbol for Hamas, reports Dan Wooding, founder of ASSIST Ministries.
Warplanes also struck Hamas government offices as air raids aimed at forcing Palestinian militants to halt rocket fire into southern Israel continued.
Palestinian medics say nearly 300 people have been killed in the air raids that began on Saturday.
Israel has threatened to launch a ground assault and is now calling up 6,500 army reservists.
Witnesses in Gaza said they saw six separate air strikes on the Islamic University, hitting a laboratory building, just after midnight.
The university is a centre of support for Hamas – the Islamist militant group which controls the Gaza Strip. Many of its top officials graduated from there.
A BBC journalist in Gaza said the university authorities had evacuated the campus a few days ago as they had been expecting a strike.
Some years ago, I accompanied Brother Andrew, the Dutch-born best-selling author of God's Smuggler, into Gaza City and it was then that he revealed that he lectured on "Biblical Christianity" at the Islamic University there.
"I was invited to teach on 'Biblical Christianity' to the students there," he said. "When all they were assembled, they were told that I would speak to them about the Bible and some of them tried to leave the lecture hall, but the Hamas leaders blocked their way and they had to sit through my lecture.
"I was also allowed to bring Arabic New Testaments and hand them out to the students."
Brother Andrew once told the Hamas leaders, "I can't change the situation you face here in Gaza. I can't solve the problems you have with your enemies. But I can offer you the One who is called the Prince of Peace. You cannot have real peace without Jesus. And you cannot experience Him without forgiveness. He offers to forgive us of all our sins. But we cannot receive that forgiveness if we don't ask for it. The Bible calls this repentance and confession of sin. If you want it, then Jesus forgives. He forgave me and made me a new person. Now I'm not afraid to die because my sins are forgiven and I have everlasting life."
Brother Andrew, who is also the founder of Open Doors, the international organization supporting persecuted Christians, is convinced that the number of Muslims involved in suicide bombings will increase in the coming years. Andrew has visited Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian areas regularly since the early 1980's, encouraging the Christians and speaking with radical Muslims about the Gospel. He describes the militant Muslims as deeply depressed.
"They are facing insurmountable problems: they will never be able to defeat Israel and the United States militarily, and their faith makes it very difficult for them to enter Paradise," he says. "Muslims know that they can only be saved by good works, but they also know that they do more evil deeds than good. Many Muslims are convinced that they will end in Hell when they die." They also have to admit that Allah does not answer their prayers. The Koran also shows them no way to be saved. Together, that leads many radical Muslims to choose death in Jihad, the holy war, because that is the only direct way to Paradise. "They see no reason to live, so choose the only reason to die," he said, addressing the 900 attendees of the Open Doors Day in Niedernhausen, Germany, on November 26th, 2005, the 50th anniversary of Open Doors Germany.
Hamas, Hezbollah, PLO: immense interest in the Gospel
"Unless we Christians go to the Muslims and tell them that they do not have to die because Jesus died for their sins too, the dramatic situation in the Near East, Iraq and Afghanistan will not change," he said, reminding Christians of their responsibility. In many encounters with leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah and the PLO, he regularly senses a great interest in the message of Christianity. "I have given thousands of Bibles to radical Muslims, and no-one has ever refused. I have also often spoken with them about Jesus who died for the sins of the world, and nobody has killed me for it."
Be an example, don't discuss
Andrew called on Christians to show more courage and mercy towards Muslims, who are desperately seeking meaning in life. Many Christians have resigned in the face of the Muslim challenge. "Muslims do not believe, as we do, that Jesus is the son of God, and that he poured out his blood on the cross for the sins of the world. But that is exactly the answer we must give them in their situation." Christians should seek contact with Muslims, and tell them the Good News in love. "We will never win the encounter with Islam through discussions or sermons. We have to go and show them how Jesus can change people."
Report from the Christian Telegraph


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